I am totally befuddled every time I meet someone that thinks X technology is the next big thing, and it MUST be used for everything. I have seen it lately with JMX, EJBs, Web Services, XML, XSLT, etc.

This is a wake up call for those people: These technologies are just tools! They help you do your job faster, easier, better, etc. They are NOT a religion! Technologies are not Jesus (the alpha and omega, beginning and end, etc). They are just there to help you in some way such that someone gets more money by the fact that you are using them.

If you are sitting in a room of ‘true believers’ at some conference, and feel like your getting all hyped up about something, just think about the last thing you heard about that received this much hype. Did it pan out? Is it still around? Is it the be-all, end-all that was promised. The answers are typically kinda, yeah, and no!

History will prove me right every single time. And for that time that it doesn’t, well that is just an anomoly

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